skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so this paper is from a Ph.D of Botany [1] that worked at a research firm that's, from what I can surface, best known for a hydroponic algae cultivation system [2].

How did this get published on PubMed.

I have GERD. The best known way of dealing with this piece-of-shit disease is to either restrict your diet to things that won't produce as much acid (so pretty much everything good) or take PPIs for the rest of your life that might or might cause bone problems due to decreased calcium absorption (my preference).

The good news is that PPIs are manageable with vitamin/calcium supplements and yearly physicals, and you don't have to take them every day if the GERD isn't that bad.

- [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-karrfalt-b60a1b49/

- [2] https://intengine.com/directory/profile/13861-renewergy-corp...
Exponential's a helluva curve
I guess people have different needs out of their apps.

I was a long time Spotify user. When they decided to give hundreds of millions to Joe Rogan, I switched to Apple Music. Then when I got YT Premium for the video benefits, I randomly tried YT Music and it has been my primary since.

And I have zero complaints. I search for artists and albums and songs and play them. Often I start algorithmic "radio" playlists based upon one of those. It plays the music. I save things to my library. I add things to playlists.

I listen to music and I think it's a great app. And again, 4.8 on the app store, so the people for whom it's a terrible app might be the exception.
The strategy of the shadow fleet has historically been about using disposable and cheap commercial ships for dual purpose of military and economical operations, with plausible deniability as a bonus.

Ducktaping spy equipment onto barely operating merchant ships fits perfectly for this purpose. It is the peace time version of the merchant raider.
> Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code

You do not.
There is nothing in the GPL that mandates you contribute. You can simply use the software as-is, and never contribute. Sit on your hands when there's a major exploit and wait until someone else fixes it, then take their fix.

It is, in fact, piss easy to get around the GPL because it only applies to distribution. If you SaaS or simply do not distribute the software, you can do whatever you want. You can dynamic link all day against evil proprietary software so long as you make the user download the GPL'd bit from a third party.

And this is obvious to all because the AGPL exists to fix this, but is an even worse shitshow.

> Corporations can just build upon your codebase and privatize your base effort, giving just the middle finger back to community.

And the humble non-commercial clause trivially resolves this while the copyleft licenses have spent decades trying and failing.
I wouldn't qualify standing in a line as endless misery...

Regardless, I have global entry so I do appreciate the desire to skip a line, but I don't follow how 100% digitization solves the need for checkpoints completely. It just seems like techno utopianism to me.
> cheaper/easier to setup families and have kids is rarely correlated with economic opportunity

That's the problem. Due to car culture and zoning policies etc.
There are people out there who don't even use an LSP with autocompletion or type handling, just syntax highlights. There's a theory that actively thinking about this will prevent u from making mistakes like forgetting a semicolon.

I do agree that some nvim setups are just IDE's in your shell, but it's also nice to have everything in one place. I don't like vsc's and Jetbrains's terminals at all, as it gets clunky too quick. To each their own though!
First Golang Project, CLI System Monitor Tool for CPU and GPU
TSA does not do border control, and in fact border control is usually relatively fast compared to being re-screened through security (TSA).

Edit:
It's convenient if you are a digital native, but elderly folks, among others, will not find it easier than a physical passport. The push to require everyone to have a digital device to participate in society is troubling to me.
What’s the LSP tool that integrates with Bazel?

Is it open source?
There was supposed to be one talk about an attempt to re-vitalize a Guile-powered Emacs. I am not sure if it's in there somewhere or not (but I haven't looked yet).

I imagine Emacs gaining native compilation capability took some pressure off that. But the appeal of scripting Emacs in languages other than Elisp still has some appeal, I think. Scheme or Lua would very nice for that purpose.

EDIT: There it is - https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/guile/
I'm not sure I can reproduce some of these complaints. Play next and add to queue are both there for me. What do you mean by "doesn't work any more"? I just opened it; it's definitely in need of a UX update but seems to work fine.
I notice if you look at Madrid it includes all of Spain and none of Portugal, and similarly from Lisbon. I assume this is because the schedules don't line up, because it wouldn't really make sense in terms of physical distance.
while I was joking, the code behind that can be run locally: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

... it supports pointing at any public or private vector tile server, and does support supplying a starting coordinate and zoom. There is even a bug report explaining how to hack it for different font aspect ratios.

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/issues/26

Realistically, it's not practical, but then, is a map? When I want to know where something is, the map lets you calculate "how far away is it and how do I get there? what's nearby?" at a glance, but you can query those things directly in OSM data (there's a cli for that too). For actual maps, I have several GPS devices and...a map. It folds up.
I've been out of a job for most of the past year. While sending Merry Christmas texts to my friends, I had a conversation with one (another programmer, different technologies and industry) where he revealed he was laid off last month.

I keep applying for jobs, and recently accepted the possibility to relocate for an on site position (because staying where I am and hoping to get a remote position hasn't worked out). I just had a promising lead in Texas 'move forward with another candidate'... argh!

Companies aren't willing to train people, not even their current employees. They want their candidates to come prepackaged with at least X years experience in Y technologies for several technologies. Their unwillingness to budge created the H1B catastrophe we see now. I'm more than willing to replatform my skillset (B2C Commerce Cloud to Shopify, or Java to .NET, for example), but no one's offering.

Looking around at the big picture, it seems that most money is leaving tech to chase higher returns elsewhere. If you aren't doing AI or crypto, it feels that you're fighting over bones. The scraps were gone a long time ago.
No, they misread.
In practice though, unless you're in the Richard Dawkins camp, it's a distinction without really a difference.
You're effectively saying that the owner of this LLM isn't allowed to say or in this case not say something according to their wishes because somehow their work, the LLM, needs to have the speech that you want rather than the speech that their owner wants. You're effectively asking for more restrictions on speech and on what private entities do.
I can recommend the yazi CLI tool for filesystem traversal:

https://yazi-rs.github.io

It has support for fzf and zoxide for these uses. As well as a panoply of other goodies (ripgrep, file previews, commands without exiting the file explorer, etc.)

If one is willing to learn helix instead of nvim, I know there's integrations out there between the two as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there were for nvim as well.
Likely relevant: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2397-there-is-a-theory-whic...
The training samples are at best self-referential, or alternatively referring to the unspoken expertise of whoever the sample came from (something the LLM is not privy to - it has it's own, different, aggregate set of knowledge).

For the model to predict "I don't know" as the continuation of (e.g. answer to) the input, that would have to be the most statistically likely response based on the training samples, but as we've noted the samples are referring to their originator, not to the aggregate knowledge of the training set/model.

Let's also note that LLMs deal in word statistics, not facts, and therefore "learning" something from one training sample does not trump a bunch of other samples professing ignorance about it - statistically a profession of ignorance is the best prediction.

If you wanted to change this, and have the LLM predict not only based on the individual training samples, but also sometimes based on an "introspective" assessment of its own knowledge (derived from the entire training set), then you would have to train it to do this, perhaps as a post-training step. But, think through in detail what it would take to do this ... How would you identify those cases where the model would have hallucinated a response and should be trained to output "I don't know" instead, and how would you identify those cases where a (statistically correct) prediction of ignorance should be trained to be overridden with a factual answer that was present in the training set?

It's really a very fundamental problem. Prediction is the basis of intelligence, but LLMs are predicting the wrong thing - word statistics. What you need for animal/human intelligence is to have the model predict facts/reality instead - as determined by continual learning and the feedback received from reality.
I wasn't aware that it has been confirmed that the Ukrainian government is behind the nord stream pipeline sabotage. Do you have any reputable sources?

Regardless, "country A sabotaged infrastructure owned by country B" doesn't automatically mean "countries A and B are at war", it's not that simple. But when acts of war happen repeatedly between countries in an area, it's a sign that the area isn't exactly in a time of peace.
Yes, there are better ways for sure. This shall just be a small piece in the puzzle :)
I’m a CFO and was a layperson on this until I started having to deal with it. I don’t have any resources other than my work experience with a few companies that have debt covenants. First, they can be rather arbitrary as they’re literally made up for each deal and meant to align somewhat to the growth story that’s being “sold” to the lender during the debt issuance; they’re negotiated between lender/borrower so take a lot of different shapes. The ones I’ve seen are usually 1) a reporting requirement 2) monthly/quarterly/annually frequency is negotiable 3) usually have some financial metric or growth metric that the company should be hitting by a certain time. So, I’ve seen EBITDA margin, gross margin, cash flow, and revenue growth stats as these metrics. But again, it could be anything.

As GP said, usually if the covenant isn’t being met but the company is profitable or has a good excuse the lender will not call the debt. They’ll work with you. I’ve seen tons of flexibility here from lenders. Usually the lender will start having more questions about the strategy and current forecasts if the metrics are underperforming and you’ll (CEO/CFO) will have to start being a bit more transparent than required or maybe just more frequent check in meetings to discuss status. In most cases, if you actually have a good story and have a healthy partnership the lender doesn’t want to call the loan and wants to see how they can help (within tolerance) get you back on track.

The moment the lender calls the loan typically, in startup land, there’s no cash reserves to pay off the debt and so the company is instantly insolvent and operations cease. This is why the lender is flexible, calling is typically a nuke for the business. But also, it can be a bit of a stop/loss. Meaning the cash in the bank can at least be recouped.
"...range in price from around $450,000 to close to $600,000."

In other words, there is little economic incentive to recommend this construction method. Not much in the way of aesthetics either --- unless you want a ranch box.
I'd buy albums off Bandcamp for artists I already know, but I wouldn't use it for discovery. Do they even have discovery features? (I honestly don't know)

Steam's recommendations (and more importantly, sales) are how I discover new games. And there's a lot of titles (both games and music) I'd happily pay $2 or $5 for, but not $20 or $50. There's a lot MORE titles I'd be happy to try for a monthly all inclusive subscription.

For music, I wish Spotify would add a "Like this track? As a Premium subscriber, you can buy the whole album for only $5!" function. That's way less than a full price album but still way more money than the artist would get from streaming.
Following those links lead to this website based free solution

https://sketch.metademolab.com/

You can upload a picture and have it animate it. Not quite the same or as impressive but still might be fun and it's free
I did this, though not because of GERD, interestingly. A coffee roaster here in Houston won a coffee competition on a decaf, and it tasted so good, I quit caffeine the day I tried it (last year).

I still get flare-ups that can be managed with H2 supplements (like Gaviscon), which are much safer than the PPIs I take every other day.

The biggest advantage of switching to decaf is that caffeine works as intended the few times I use it. I have trouble staying awake on long drives; having a cup of coffee or a light energy drink, like Celsius, fixes that now.
At times I ponder a system decoupling identity from credentials. One would lose most of the prestige/bragging rights but one could rebuild and talk about any of the hundred thousand career ending topics. Purging unethical topics would still be required but we can do that without harming the person.
> (when’s the last time you’ve seen a comedy in theaters?)

A month ago, for Beetlejuice2.

IMO a comedy is one of the only reasons to still go to a theater. The communal experience of everyone laughing is terrific.
> There's a theory that actively thinking about this will prevent u from making mistakes like forgetting a semicolon.

I never want to waste a single brain cycle on a missing semicolon. That is what the editor (or autocomplete or AI or whatever) should be doing for me.
I suspect that AI generated music will be widely produced and consumed in the same way AI movies will largely be used for say commercials or cutscenes, AI images for commercial illustration, and LLM text for content writing; interstitial filler material that is obligatory but no one really seeks out. So you’ll hear royalty-free AI-generated muzak when you’re on hold watching network TV show procedurals/sitcoms, meditation apps and low-fi hip-hop beats channels. When there needs to be sound that you’re not actually focusing on.
Presumably at least _some_ are descendants from when a big chunk of the US was part of Mexico, so I would imagine the number is less than 100% (but probably close to it, the region wasn't very populated)
There's a key difference: Russia does not have freedom of the press nor freedom of speech. TV channels and newspapers get talking points from their coordinator in the presidential administration in the Kremlin and then do their best to hit the desired notes, or face takeover or closure. No independent mass media exists in Russia anymore. The Kremlin serves as the editorial board for every major outlet. This is the Russian government speaking.

Russian Media Monitor channel on Youtube maintains a collection of that speech. One of the most recent examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hULOZDqxv1Q In this clip from a prime-time TV show, propagandists keep repeating how they need to nuclear blackmail Trump into handing Europe over to Russia, with "Russian troops in Berlin, Paris and Lisbon" (02:12). Russian outlets hammer garbage like this into their population every single day, such rhetoric is everywhere. And words certainly lead to actions: when Russian POWs captured in Ukraine are asked what the hell they are doing in Ukraine, they can't come up with anything and fall back to repeating the same things word for word as if the were robots.
Today I generally think of an IDE supporting one language (or a few complementary languages) without any configuration, whereas a text editor usually requires configuration to get the same features. Although it's true the features are almost identical now. Though IDEs typically still offer some special sauce features, usually things that still don't fit cleanly into LSP and DAP (language server and debugger protocols respectively) models. On the flip side, text editors typically (lightly) support more file formats out of the box, and scale better, e.g., equally comfortable editing a single file or an entire project. TLDR: the trade off is between flexibility (text editor) or specificity (IDE).
And yet somehow tens of millions of us manage to live in them.
Remote work could have solved this. The higher-ups had other thoughts.

There’s a parallel to sending your kids off to war. Get them away from their sense of stability, to a place where it’s too expensive to live, for years at a time, to fight for the United States’ GDP.

It’s not just the young adults who are affected. In some cases their family members grieve the separation. And yet it seems like the only way to get ahead for many.
I've sampled all of those services. None of those have comparable, sustainable mass audiences like YouTube. They also lack integration with my other consumption, which YouTube provides. And in general, the quality of independent educational content I find on YouTube is quite good and is often a product of YouTube culture itself, now that we are no longer in the first generation of YT creators, and I quite like the culture and its aesthetic.

Udemy, Skillshare and Coursera have failed to create a product which attracts me, and the general population. Their focus on specific content and consumption habits is both a blessing and a curse, depending on who you ask.
Since last year.
> A high-gloss product that dissolves into air. Tide Pod cinema.

Wait, what's wrong with Tide Pods?
I work in tech leadership in a role that only rarely involves actually looking at or writing code for work. I code on the side because dopamine.
I’m self-employed so I don’t have personal experience, but all around me (in Berlin) people are struggling to find work. I have more unemployed friends than ever and they stay unemployed for longer than ever. Others are afraid to risk their job in any way. Employers got bolder in their demands and English-speaking workers are fighting for scraps. The UX industry is absolutely cutthroat right now.

I work in immigration and my colleagues in the industry noticed the difference in skilled immigration. It even affected the overpriced temporary housing market that mostly targeted skilled immigrant workers. Freelance relocation consultants report having their worst year on record.

I also noticed a dip in traffic but it might be caused by Google’s plundering of the web with its AI summaries. I can’t tell if the actual demand changed. I run a website that helps immigrants settle.

It’s generally accepted in Germany that things are not great right now. I could likely find matching evidence in yearly reports, but the vibe alone is telling.
PPIs can take a (long) while for its side effects to present. Also, not everyone experiences the side effects, though some people definitely do!
"Service providers" are in a very unequal situation here, with very different rights and liabilities, if you meant grouping ISPs (net neutrality) and platforms together.

And I don't care about the USA at this point, they made their bed, now let them lie in it, in fact the more they squeeze their fist, the sooner the free world will get the courage to dump them.
This is hardly a Russian talking point. Russia does not want more Ukrainian soldiers.

The entire neocon press makes the point that people are evading service:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/29/i-am-n...

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-faces-an-acute-manpo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/world/europe/ukraine-war-...

I don't blame them. That's why it would have been better to accept the Istanbul agreement while Ukraine had the upper hand. Naftali Bennett (hardly opposed to wars in principle) said that this agreement was sabotaged by the U.S., but he walked back that statement later.

I do blame Ukraine for not holding elections and finding out what people really want.
I run a accountancy business in India for local customers and we are a team of more than ~10 CPA Indian equivalents. A few CFAs as well.

Let me know if anyone requires our services for Bookkeeping/Accounting.
No one said that the religious belief itself is the important factor, and your first guess of it enforcing terrible marriage is insultingly reductive. Your second guess only comes close. It's literally the church, the meeting place where you see the same people every week. Kids meet other kids, adults meet adults. If you think that every person in the building actually believes what the pastor says then i think you have not been to most American churches. The shared belief is a part of it but can be easily faked if necessary. The entirety of social life from the church is the proximity. The vast majority of friends made from that proximity do not spend even half their time together speaking about the church or the belief, especially the children.

Sure, the church has problems, as does religion. All that's being said is that church is the last great, high trust, free, "third space" in America. The fact that it houses a religion is related but not central to that fact.
10 miles allows visiting every weekend, it becomes common for the whole extended family to meet for Sunday lunch as I see of my siblings. It also means if you need help moving, replacing a roof, or something else you can make a phone call and get plenty of help on a Saturday. My parents choose to live 30 miles from their parents - close enough to visit every weekend, but not so close they would poke their nose into the kids business every day.

I live 300 miles from where I grew up. Going to "back home" to visit is a big deal and so we don't do it often. Not only is two days lost in travel (technically it is 5-6 hours to drive, but it still wastes most of the day); we can't go home to our beds and so that means we need to get a hotel or sleep on floors - both have downsides. Thus we only consider this trip over long weekends. Visiting us is a similar effort for my siblings and so I rarely see them anymore. (don't get me started on visiting my in-laws who are over 1000 miles away - suffice to say we need a full week off to consider that)

In short, if you can do so I strongly recommend you live close to your friends and family and not move away. However there are many reasons why someone cannot do this.
"when computation is cheaper than bandwidth, you can send programs instead of sending data"

Please don't, though! Any path that expects data 99% of the time should always be getting data, because the 1% "it's code actually" path is never going to get enough eyeballs or real testing to catch actual security vulnerabilities until a malicious actor comes along and decides to kick the tires.
You're arguing a different point. The old CEO claims it's his absence that caused the failure, not the presence of the new CEO. You're arguing that it's the presence of the new CEO that caused the failure. GP is pointing out that if the absence of the old CEO is what caused the company to fail as the old CEO claims, and not the actions of the new CEO, then it wasn't in good shape to start with.
The Gorbino's Quest of music!
I love apocalyptic movies (even ones that are not considered great) but the few I started watching on Netflix were really bad.
> Most of it could be (or maybe already is) AI generated and I wouldn't know the difference.

I wonder if a complete AI disruption where background music can be generated will increase the demand for live bands, even if at a local pub.